ROAD SAFETY WEEK

Road Safety Week has been organized in Delhi Public School Janjgir- Champa by DSP, Traffic Janjgir-Champa visited the School and make the children aware about the Traffic Rules. Because in our Country Traffic Deaths are increasing at tremendous rate and that is highest in the world. 16 People are dying every hour and that counts to more than one lakh and forty thousand every year this is the reported data published by the NCRB, National Crime Record Bureau, higher than the people dead in WORLD WARs, in our country just because of contravening traffic rules and the most bizarre facts is that these all deaths are PREVENTABLE DEATHS.

Preventable Death means can be avoided by wearing good quality Helmets, deployment of adequate nos of Traffic Police, Making highways with divider because second reason for accidental deaths is the HEAD-On Collision of the Heavy Vehicles, as well as heavy vehicle with Passenger Vehicles.

India's killer roads claimed the lives of 75,000 people aged between 15 and 34 years last year. Over 82% of these victims were males, according to the Road Accident Report for 2014 prepared by the Road Transport and HighwaysMinistry.

"The detailed age profile of road accident victims for calendar year 2014 reveals that the age group of 15-34 years accounted for 53.8% of the total road accident fatalities, followed by the age group of 35-64 years accounting for a share of (35.7%)," the report says.

According to the report prepared by the ministry's Transport Research Wing (TRW), the total number of road crashes has increased marginally from 4.86 lakh in 2013 to 4.89 lakh in 2014 and crossed the mark of 5 lakh in the year 2015. The number of fatalities has also gone up by about 1.5%. Thirteen states - Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal, Bihar, Punjab and Haryana - account for about 83.2% of the deaths.

Major Facts of the Road Accidents in India:

(i)                  Drunken driving is one of the leading causes of road fatalities.

(ii)                 One serious road accident in the country occurs every minute and 16 die on Indian roads every hour.

(iii)                1214 road crashes occur every day in India.

(iv)               Two wheelers account for 25% of total road crash deaths.

(v)                20 children under the age of 14 die every day due to road crashes in the country.

(vi)               377 people die every day, equivalent to a jumbo jet crashing every day.

(vii)              Two people die every hour in Uttar Pradesh – State with maximum number of road crash deaths.

(viii)            Tamil Nadu is the state with the maximum number of road crash injuries

(ix)               Top 10 Cities with the highest number of Road Crash Deaths (Rank –Wise):

(x)                Delhi (City)
Chennai
Jaipur
Bengaluru
Mumbai
Kanpur
Lucknow
Agra
Hyderabad
Pune

(xi)               Source of Information: National Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Road Transport & Highway, Law commission of India, Global status report on road safety 2013

The programme concluded with a pledge by the students to take utmost care while driving at the same time they will take care of their elders as well as friends and neighbours whenever they will show callous attitude while driving carelessly and negligently.

The Painting competition was also organized to make the smaller children aware and the full knowledge of obtaining Driving License was also intimated to the students.